Donna Darkwolf - The Contessa in The Lemon Garden

“Capri Lemon Garden” Tarantella by Dolce Vita

A photo-composition we did for Donna’s book that she never got to complete.
I had already written this - except that here, I have changed the tense slightly to reflect the fact that Donna is no longer:

“The shadow of your perfume still fills this garden, and time won't wash you from my skin
I breathe you out then breathe you in
Every whisper, every bloom brings back the shadow of your perfume
The music plays a tune familiar as a winging moon.
I close my eyes and you're right here in the sand that won't disappear

Time won't wash you from my skin - I breathe you out then breathe you in.
Yet here I stay in soft perfume trapped in this velvet afternoon with that distant melody in a slow dance with the moon.

You left the starlight in my eyes
So pour me another memory - clean and dry
On the rocks - just like my heart
While somehow from times when hearts were still

The light still hits it the same way - golden like those yesterdays it holds -
I still wait for you, My Contessa -
Here in the Lemon Garden”.

Originally photographed on our townhouse patio. So that I could compose it into this picture of some place on Italy's Amalfi coast where lemons grow.

I wrapped a black scarf around Donna’s Spanish hat to change its shape’ – and the rest was what she already had. Just needed a newspaper as a prop – for an effect that I wanted to do . . .

I wanted to do a “mise en abysme” technique where a portion of the image is included IN the image.
As I have done here with the photo of Donna Darkwolf in the Paris Match magazine cover – which itself is in a magazine cover.

A garden in Italy is not enough - let us go to another Planet where - She is the >> The Girl who Plays my Heart